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Spring time again!

Our winter has looked a lot like this. It has finally melted down and I hope that we will not get anymore surprises so that I can start having more flowers and color in the garden. The weather is warming up and a lot of the plants are starting to wake up. Here are some of my flowers in the garden now. What are some of your favorite Spring flowers?

This beauty is a rare one. She is Colchicum hungaricum‘Valentine.’ Many know Colchicum as fall flowering but not this one – this one is winter flowering?! Was something different for me so I of course had to get it. Well for me this year it was spring. But it is said to start blooming around Valentine’s Day hence the name. This was her first year in my garden so I am hoping that next year it will be earlier once it is more established. So far so good. I am glad I got this one from Odyssey Bulbs.

My Hellebores are just now starting. I love all Hellebores, double or single, pink or white the answer from me is “Oh, ahhh what a beauty.” Love at first sight always. I went on another trip to Pine Knot Farms a couple weeks ago and came home with more.

I think one of my favorite winter beauties are the Winter Aconite. Along with these and Snowdrops I wish they were more available here in the U.S. and that we had more cultivars here. They are just great. I hope mine start spreading and seeding all about in the garden – that would just be prefect!

My Snowdrops have been doing wonderful! Much better than I expected with my soil conditions as they are in my garden. Here is my Ophelia that is a great double that is bulking up nicely. I can not wait for all of them to start bulking up and to add more to my collection. One that I was really impressed with was ‘Fieldgate Prelude’ was very early and the flowers lasted for a very long time. Great cultivar!

Now for my blues – I was looking at my photos from last spring and I have a lot of blues in the spring. I guess really attracted to the color and they all seem to show up in the garden in the spring and well here are some of my blues. Above are my Scilla siberica ‘Spring Beauty’ starting to flower in the garden that are a bright blue. Iris ‘Katharine Hodgkin’ is bulking up as well which is a light blue. The patterns on the petals are just amazing, a great mosaic of blues with a hint of yellow making for a great masterpiece. They both are starting to bulk and are making a better statement now that the clumps are getting bigger.

My little Asarum is blooming under all its’ leaves. Not showy but cool looking. A good one for every garden due to their great evergreen foliage.